Loading Error on Windows 10

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ita47

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I have RealFlight G3 and I recently got a new laptop with windows 10. I loaded G3 from the CD and it loaded fine. Then I tried to download the G3.5 upgrade. The download would start and run for a long time but wouldn't complete. So I thought I would uninstall G3 and reload it and try the upgrade again after the fresh load. So I tried to uninstall G3 and it didn't seem to uninstall correctly from the Realflight control panel. I then went into windows uninstaller and unistalled realflight from there.

Now I tried to reinstall G3 from the disc and I get an error message saying "This program has been damaged, possibly by a bad sector of the hard drive or a virus. Please reinstall it." I have run my virus scan, run disc cleanup and defrag, I have deleted any files from the day I installed G3, rebooted my computer numerous times and I still get that same error message everytime I try to load from the disc.

Has anyone else run into a problem like this? I guess I should have left G3 on the computer and not worried about the 3.5 update. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
I have work around for the This program has been damaged, possibly by a bad secto-

If your on windows 10, run realflight g3 in compatibility mode for windows xp, to do that, just right click on the setup and click on properties and then click compatibility, then from there you should know what to do because i'm going to bed hence my name.
 
i know its a long shot but a brought a copy of RealFlight G3 and simulator, it worked fine to start with then I tried to get later versions which would not load without error messages resulting in the same final message saying.This program has been damaged, possibly by a bad sector of the hard drive or a virus. Please reinstall it." RealFlight product support were unable to help saying it is no longer supported this software. Did you manage to resolve this issue?
 
harrisonp44 said:
i know its a long shot but a brought a copy of RealFlight G3 and simulator, it worked fine to start with then I tried to get later versions which would not load without error messages resulting in the same final message saying.This program has been damaged, possibly by a bad sector of the hard drive or a virus. Please reinstall it." RealFlight product support were unable to help saying it is no longer supported this software. Did you manage to resolve this issue?
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This is a old thread and the last post was 2019. If compatibility mode as described doesn't work, A new version would be the only recommended fix.
 
harrisonp44 said:
i know its a long shot but a brought a copy of RealFlight G3 and simulator, it worked fine to start with then I tried to get later versions which would not load without error messages resulting in the same final message saying.This program has been damaged, possibly by a bad sector of the hard drive or a virus. Please reinstall it." RealFlight product support were unable to help saying it is no longer supported this software. Did you manage to resolve this issue?
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I hope this helps people having trouble with running G3.5 on windows 10. When I first installed G3.5 on my windows 10 it worked Just fine but, after sometime had past it stopped working. What I was able to figure out was that G3.5 WILL WORK... but ... Only on a freshly installed windows 10. Once you start using windows 10 and Microsoft starts updating the software something changes and G3.5 will no longer work. I tried uninstalling the program ( the uninstall didn't seem to work right ) and reinstall the program from the disk ... with no luck. When a NEW windows 10 was installed in the laptop the G3.5 program worked just fine. I did this on spare laptop .... I will NOT be going online with this laptop EVER again and will just use it for the flight program ... one happy camper here.. I hope this helps a lot of people.
 
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